DELLA protein sequences of pumpkin (7), cucumber (4), melon (4), watermelon (4), Arabidopsis (5), soybean (7), Brassica napus (13), rice (1), tomato (2) and maize (3) were retrieved from cucurbit genomics database, TAIR and Ensembl database (http://plants.ensembl.org/index.html), respectively. Based on multiple sequence alignment, phylogenetic tree was created using the neighbor-joining (NJ) method with MEGA 7.0. The conserved domains were analyzed by the NCBI CDD, and the conserved motifs were predicted by MEME (https://meme-suite.org/meme/). Furthermore, the distribution maps of conserved domains and conserved motifs were visualized using TBtools v 1.0986961. Promoter sequences (2 kp before the start codon) of CmoDELLA genes were analyzed through online PlantCare (https://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/webtools/plantcare/html/) to obtain cis-regulatory elements. Interaction networks between CmoDELLA proteins and other proteins were conducted through online STRING (https://string-db.org/), using Arabidopsis as reference species.
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